ܟܗܪܒܝ khrby electron
Allotropes: ܩܗܪܒܝ qhrby, ܩܗܪܐܒܝ qhrʾby. Calque (?): ܠܵܩܛܲܬ ܦܲܪܹܐ lqṭt prʾ lāqṭat parē electron, amber
MP kah-rubāy [klpʾd] amber (CPD 48); NP kāh-rubā, kāh-rubāy yellow amber (from its attracting straws); gum of the walnut-tree; also of a tree resembling the pistachio (Steingass 1011; Horn 135 and 186 f.); kā-rubā amber (ibid. 1002); kah-rubā attracting straws, amber (ibid. 1066); OP *kāθrupā- amber (Gershevitch 1969b, 201; Hinz 1975, 151); cf. ʾhn rb; see Laufer 1919, 521 f. Syr. lqṭt prʾ is probably a calque on MP kah-rubāy, NP kāhrubā amber: it is composed by a form of the vb. lqṭ lqaṭ to lift, to attract (LS 370a), and prtʾ parṯā, plur. prʾ parē straw (LS 591b) ● khrby BB 869, 23; qhrby, qhrʾby BB 565, 19; 1703, 10; 1719, 5; 1791, 5 and 7; lqṭt prʾ BB 179, 16 ◆ LS 320a, 650b; 370a; Lagarde GA 53, 140